Harry Lang

@AchingRat "The police can't recruit enough to keep up." Hold on, I'm not sure that's true. I think each new police officer position is very, very oversubscribed and competitive?

BBC News on unemployment for young people in the UK. The army, Royal Navy and RAF are always recruiting. The police can't recruit enough to keep up. The NHS relies on migrant workers. These jobs are hard graft but will make you a better person. So, get off your weak arses.

@lookslike5tome @debv219 @atrupar 700 foot? That's like 200 metres. Quite a big difference.

@debv219 @atrupar Only off by 700 ft.

Trump claims the reflecting pool, which is flat, is "taller than the tallest building in the world"

@BasilFranken @alexbronzini @DanFriedman81 "Many schools do it." Do they? Because I have never heard of the concept. And it doesn't really make sense?

@alexbronzini @DanFriedman81 Don't be dramatic. It's auto acceptance if you meet per-defined criteria. Many schools do it.

"You've never applied to the University of Austin (UATX). We're admitting you anyway." Surely a sign of a thriving institution

@BylineTimes @scatatkins This... this makes me a bit uncomfortable? You're lying to them and inflaming things.

Our undercover reporter went on the Tommy Robinson rally this weekend, posing as a far-right news channel, and found Tommy Robinson supporters fuming about his criminal record

@RobAbBlk @amelia_tweetz I think the first one (in Butler) did add to some people's view of him as a hero, and it did generate some photos that will go down in history.

@amelia_tweetz Why so many planned fake assassination attempts? Does it have any kind of “positive” outcome for Lumpy?

The “assassination attempt” was 2 weeks ago. I haven’t heard a single thing about it from anyone in the administration or the media. It was completely planned and they didn’t like the reaction it received, so it’s like it never happened.

@gomarciego @SteveThomp1154 @JamesHeartfield "CCPSHE"?! Why name it that?

@SteveThomp1154 @JamesHeartfield Head of CCPHSE connaught-school.co.uk/curriculum/sub… Or sex ed and civics in old money

I’ve had some embarrassing exchanges on picket lines over the years, but having your own students addressing you as ‘Mr Phillips’ over a megaphone, in uniform, while you’re wearing, a clown costume has to hurt…

@eni_iljazi I... I really don't understand. What was the question?

my math olympiad story is that in 6th grade I didn’t make it to the next round because one of the problems had a history question baked in. I didn’t remember the year, so I used a placeholder nr, and even though the solution was correct, they counted the final answer as wrong.

@kimbeyt @RobertJenrick But the airport officers were not charged in the end?

@RobertJenrick We all know that the officers will be done for this, just line the airport guys. 🤬🤬

@btq96r @kevinbaum013 But have drug prices actually reduced? There may be some examples where he's had success, but I'm not sure he's making progress overall?

@kevinbaum013 What's wild is if they just stick to the price values of what they're trying to change with drug prices, it'll be a great talking point because any Democrat president could have done this. Instead they try this fake math bullshit to sound dramatic and lose the message.

If you can't do simple math, you should be disqualified from running an organization that runs statistical scientific studies.

@stiers_rob @cboyack I'm not sure about that. I don't think my house plant knows the equation for photosynthesis.

@cboyack Every time to catch a ball or object out of the air you used it. You’re welcome.

Still waiting for that magic moment when the quadratic equation will come in handy…

@StuartLock I think if they're switched off, in a bag, and not seen at all then that's fair enough?

Quite right too.

@TigersJUK @joemichalczuk Ten hours is a long time, I think at some point you have to make the decision?

@joemichalczuk I mean if she didn’t give up and go home she would have gotten treatment?

A shower screen shattered all over my wife this week. Over the next 72 hours, the NHS got almost everything wrong. A cautionary tale of a system that is broken (with the usual caveat that everyone working in it is doing their best) 👇 I called an ambulance. All good at first: “It’s on its way.” Ten minutes later: “Actually, there are no ambulances for hours - can you get her to hospital?” So I loaded my bleeding wife into the car, along with the kids and the dog, and drove to A&E. Ten hours later, she came home - having given up after not even being offered a plaster. The next morning, we called our GP: “Any chance she could see a nurse?” “No - as the ambulance referred her to hospital, we can’t see her.” So I went to the pharmacy and bought a first aid kit. Because apparently that’s where we are now - me and a pack of plasters, in one of the richest countries in the world. This morning, still in pain, still untreated, and with a ballooning foot, we went to an urgent treatment centre. At first, smooth. She was seen in under two hours. X-ray done. “Nasty cut, but nothing broken.” Relief. Two hours later, the phone rang. It was the hospital. “Sorry - we got that completely wrong. Your foot is broken and the wound needs antibiotics.” If it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable. And the truth is - anyone who uses the system has a story like this. We need to stop clinging to an idealised version of the NHS and have a grown-up conversation about how to fix it. Free healthcare for all should remain a principle - but pretending the current model works isn’t helping anyone. Almost every other developed country combines public healthcare with some level of private provision - and all deliver better outcomes as a result. Yet in the UK, even suggesting that tends to get shut down before the conversation starts. That’s not protecting the NHS. It’s protecting a cult. We don’t need ideology. We need honesty about what works. We need a brilliant NHS in practice for all of us - not one we’re told to revere while it quietly crumbles, and where anyone who speaks up is dismissed or discredited. When are we going to get serious about the things that actually matter - and have the difficult national conversations needed to fix them? We don’t need to abandon the NHS. We need to be honest about fixing it. We shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders. We have to be better. We need to vote for real change.

@platinombrero I make it 59,000%?

the best part about this is that they’re not even doing the blatantly wrong math correctly. if you were just going to do the % increase but backwards the it would be a 6000% decrease best and brightest

@JohnAndersonNe0 @michaelaterndru @SketchesbyBoze Not in the first two books

@HarryLang100 @michaelaterndru @SketchesbyBoze Torture and death probably

My niece has parents who keep their phones largely hidden so she doesn’t see them on it. She’s never had her own tablet. At four years old, she has the focus to sit through an entire two-hour film. She’s rapidly learning to read. She loves Alice, Harry Potter, A Christmas Carol.

@michaelaterndru @SketchesbyBoze Why not?

@SketchesbyBoze She should not be reading Harry Potter

@servusChristi_1 @SCFCJosh96 Not sure I agree with you. 16 years in the *minimum*. The parole board can decide he should stay longer.

@HarryLang100 @SCFCJosh96 Life sentence does not mean life in prison. He wasn't sentenced to a whole life order. So yes, he has done his time in prison according to the UK courts and parole board

surely if you don't reveal where you've buried somebody you shouldn't be let out? That's basic leverage they have over him.

@servusChristi_1 @SCFCJosh96 But he was sentenced to life in prison (with a minimum term of 16 years). So it's not like he's done his time?

@SCFCJosh96 This isn't really how justice works in the UK. You don't just get whole life sentences if you don't show remorse. You do time for your crime and then you get released

@peter_sarris I wonder if increased awareness of learning science has made a difference? 30 years ago Anki did not exist.

1/2 Over thirty years teaching in academia in Oxbridge I have observed massive degree grade inflation. I have observed three main reasons: 1) Students do genuinely work harder than they used to. The world beyond graduation is genuinely much tougher.

@AstroMikeMerri @Tom_Richmond @HEPI_news Hold on. If there is a sensible distribution of grades then that *does* give some information about ranking relative to peers. If everyone gets a first then it doesn't. So I don't understand what point you are making here?

@Tom_Richmond @HEPI_news While grade inflation is not terribly healthy, and mildly irritating when you obtained a 1st in 1985, it really doesn’t matter that much since no-one cares about absolute degree classifications, just ranking relative to peers.

The absurd and unjustified growth in top university grades has undermined the value of a degree as well as damaging the reputation of the HE sector. My new @HEPI_news report explains how to unwind this concerning development: bit.ly/4mBraMN

@Rorro_Lux @SussexHenryVIII What exactly can you achieve by jailbreaking a 14 year old Kindle?

@SussexHenryVIII When they stop supporting it, means you can jailbreak it much easier making it a much better device.

It should be illegal for companies to do this.